The US State Department, through US attorney general Eric Holder, has told the New York Times that it will not seek the death penalty for the individuals engaged in the perfidious site CARPAleaks for its inflammatory practices, even as they took on the “treasonous act of aiding the enemy” by revealing secret CARPA-projects. Several members of the CARPAleaks community have allegedly applied for temporary asylum in Russia “on the grounds that if they were returned to the United States, they would be tortured and would face the death penalty”. Holder has contested these claims, assuring that “the craft of torture is unlawful in the United States.”